Blythe Street Elementary

Blythe Street Elementary operates as a close-knit elementary-level community in Reseda, California, run under Los Angeles Unified. Current enrollment sits at 323 students spanning grades K through 5. That puts it 31% leaner than the typical public school in California, which averages around 465 students.

Within Los Angeles Unified, which oversees 784 schools and 406,887 students, Blythe Street Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Blythe Street Elementary lists that 84% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority; the rest comes out to 6% Asian, 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Blythe Street Elementary shows 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 21.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 100% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Blythe Street Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 20.1%, the actual is 26.7%, a residual of +6.6 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Blythe Street Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

John R. Wooden High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Blythe Street Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Blythe Street Elementary at 3rd of 4; the average score across the group is 39.3%.

Blythe Street Elementary operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Blythe Street Elementary's enrollment has fell 30% since 2018, when it stood at 460 (now 323).

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